Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-23
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COUNCIL CONFIRMS ALL THE NOMINATIONS
SENT In.
The Members Of the Second Branch Working for
Street ImpDVsnsns-fhs Board Of Public
Works Clsrkship Not Approved.

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Works Olsrkship Not Approved.
There wa only a moderate attendance
at last evenings session of the Second
Branch, notwithstanding it was expected
the a~ll-powerfnl Lincoln Club aucus
would again hurl itself into the breach,
upon the issue raised by the nominations
for Deputy Sergeants, sent up by the Board
of Police and Fire Commissioners. The
caucus did not do this, but all the same
those who failed to attend the Second
Branch session missed the greatest show on
earth-it was richness doubly cond ensed-
it was foOlishness unbridled and turned
adrift without restraint. The Branch was
called to order by President Gilleland at
$50 o'clock, twenty-five members answer
ing to their names. The absentees were
Messrs. Caldwell, Hartong, Jaeger, Miller,
Pracht, and Prayer. Two or three ofthese
absentees came in later.
The following committee bills were
ordered paid: Board of Police and Fire
Commissioners, twenty-five days pay for
Extraman John Druschell, ssh; health,
$l61. SO; scales, $780, 30. The regular
semi-monthly report of Clerk Bowers
showed a total balance Of $53,024.23.
Accompanying the report of the Health
Committee was a resolution, authorizing
the printing of the ordinance in relation to
the ~crematory, in pamphlet form, for the
information of the public, and another
authorizing the employment of city prison.
ers in working about the crematory. Mr..
Healy offered the last named resolution.
He thought the city should employ men to
do the work, and not allow tramps TO
throw industrious men out of employ
ment. Both resolutions were adopted.
The Committee on Salaries reported IN
accordance with the publication OF their
proceedings in yesterdays issue OF the
REGISTER. The report was agreed to.
ACCOMMODATING it was an ordinance in
creasing the compensation of Weighmaster
from 500 and 10 per cent. to 500 and 10
per cent. 1t was unanimously agreed 10.
The joint bond of the members OF the
Board of Public Works, dated February
IL, 1887, in the sum OF ten thousand dol
lars, was read and approved. Accom-
panying the bond was the Oaths OF office,
sworn to before B. A. Galligan, Notary
Public.
The City Water Board announced that it
had organized by electing William Has
tings President. The Board had made the
following appointments, and asked that
thew be confirmed: II. p. Wilkinson,
Clerk, salary, 1925 per month; j. II. Rid
| die. Superintendent of Water Works,
Sl66. &c per month; TIC. Young, Assessor
North District, $500; T. c. Wilson, Assessor
South District, 5000. The nominations were
confirmed.
The Board of Public Works made a SIM
liar report, announcing that j. II. Hobbs
had been elected President, j. II. Lancas-
ter had been elected as clerk at a salary of
ST. 900, ]. wv. Warden superintendent Of
Streets, at a salary of 81, 200, and F. l..
Hoge Surveyor, at the fees fixed by ordi-
nance. Mr.. Cruise said he had no feeling OF
hostility toward any of the gentlemen ap-
pointed by the Board, but at the same
time he did not see his way clear to voting
for the increase of $500 in the salary Of
clerk. Mr.. Allison was also in the dark,
and several others felt the same way. On
a vote by ayes and nays the salary was not
approved, every member voting no. The
report thus goes back to the Board.
A report from the Police and Fire Board
sent up the names of the following officers
for confirmation:
Bell, James Heslop, Edward
Brinkman, Henry H~anshumaker, Michael
Carney, W. J. Jupkins, Robert
Desmond, John 4. Ktlleen, Thomas
Deku, Jacob Lukens, W. L.
Devlin, John McNicholl, K. G.
Druschell, John (extra) Shorts, John
Dunlap, b +. Stevens, {. Z.
Glenn, Joseph West. John
Grubler, Frank Watson, Jacob
This list is the same as the old force,
with the exception of John Shorts, who
takes the place OF Ed. Duffy, resigned.
A communication from the City Clerk,
asked the passage of an ordinance author
izing him to draw an order for $3.50, in
terest on the loan of 1877, and So, 900 for
the payment of bonds becoming due. The
ordinance was passed.
The bond of Weighmaster Robinson, in
the sum of 81, 900; the bond of J. H. Rid
die, in the sum of $40, 600, of II. P. Will
kinson, in the sum of $4,000; and of
Thomas Z. Macker and T. c. Young, in
$40, 900 each, were approved.
A petition was read from Lucian Gaus,
and thirty-nine other BARRIERS of this city,
praying that Council make it a penal
offence for any barber to keep his
saloon open for business upon the
Sabbath day." A counter petition was
also read from Henry Meyer and ten other
BARRIERS, protesting against the ordinance
asked for, on the ground that some of the
signers to the majority petition intended to
make travelling barber shops Ofthemselves
on Sunday mornings"
MIR. Healy moved to refer the petition
to the Committee on Ordinances, with in
structions to draw an ordinance in accord
ance with the prayer of the majority of the
petitions.
Mr.. Harrell made q little speech in sup
port of the motion, which ELECTED applause
from q number of BARRIERS in the gallery, !
and after some sparring between the Speak
er and Mr.. Cruise, the matter wa referred.
Chief Smith appeared at the head of his
deputies, and the oath Of office was admin
istered to them i'll q body.
Resolutions were offered as follows: By
Mr.. Harrell, asking the Water Board 10
take steps to construct a high service
basin; by Mr.. Vockler, asking the Board
of Public Works to include in their esti-
mates the paving of Main street from
Fourteenth to Twenty-fourth streets; by
Mr.. Prayer, ditto, Eoff street from Elev-
enth to Sixteenth; by Mr.. Jaeger, ditto,
Thirty-sixth street, from Chapline to Wet
eel; by Mr.. Cruise, ditto, Chapline street,
from Fwenty-seyenth to Thirty-third; by
Mr.. Gavin, do, Main street, from Eighth
to Tenth, Tenth from Main to Market,
and Market from Tenth to Eighteenth; by
Mr.. Allison, do, Fifteenth from Chapline
to Mccullough; by Mr.. Harrell, do, Main
street, from Third to the Top mill; by Mr..
Young, do, Eoff street, from Sixteenth to
Eighteenth; by Mr.. Davis, do, Four
teenth, from Market to Main streets. The
resolutions were all referred TO the Board
of Public Works.
Mr.. Maxwell offered o resolution au-
thoriging tue Board of Public Works to
curb South Penn street from ]. P. Rogers
residence to the Fair Grounds, and gravel
the said street Referred to the Board.
Mr.. Jaeger moved that a special COM
mittee Of three from each Branch be APP
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